O acesso à justiça em Cabo Verde – As expectativas do 25 de Abril e as lições da experiência brasileira

Abstract

Access to justice is one of the conditions of democracy, especially in countries that, like Cape Verde, are in the mature phases of development, after consolidating their independence. However, it is worth revisiting a set of situations that occur in the country, especially when the expectations of 25 April 1974 are revived, when the open doors to decolonization and democracy were announced. However, after five decades, we can observe, on the one hand, the maintenance of social inequalities that have an impact on the slowness of justice. Without access to justice there is no sustainable development. There are several factors that make access to justice difficult, putting at risk one of the fundamental legal rights, embodied in the terms of article 22 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cape Verde. On the other hand, and in the case of a country that made a transition to democracy, the case of Cape Verde is highlighted and compared with some parameters of the Brazilian system that gained prominence in access or facilitating access to justice. The underlying question in this comparison is whether the Portuguese post-colonial model followed by Cape Verde in this plan will be the most appropriate, or whether other models, such as the Brazilian one, would not represent factors for improvement.